Overview:

For this project, I was lead engineer on a team project to develop a system in which the snow under the feet of the player and NPC would imprint when stepping upon it in Valkyrie Quest.

Specifications:

Behaviors:

Through the use of virtual textures we are able to determine the order of the different textures to be applied, such as snow on top and dirt underneath.
Using collision boxes to determine the hit locations for the player and NPCs that would cause imprints.
Keeping track of all collisions upon the surface and distance down that the snow imprints.
Allow for an interpolation variable modifiable by the design team, to allow the snow to build back up to it original height.
Removing collision from array once the height achieves original height to reduce size of array.

Here is the example of the hit detection for the snow

We are proud of the final product.

The Awesome Team!

Angeling Cruz-Yen – Art Director & Environment Artist & VFX Artist

Val Ross – Creative Director & Character Artist

Joe Brace – Environment Artist & Lighting Artist

Oak Thaloengpong – Environment Artist

Ebony Bryant – Concept Artist & Character Artist

Elena Rasskazova – Rigger

Cody Johnson – Lead Animator

Blake Johnson – Animator

Josh Bechtol – Animator

Suzanna Jelsema – Composer/SFX

Lindy Plunkett – Technical Lead & Gameplay Programmer

Dustin Keplinger – Producer & Gameplay Designer & Gameplay Engineer

Quinn Beierle – AI Engineer & Gameplay Engineer & Gameplay Designer

Ted Sharygin– AI Engineer

James Doolittle – AI Programmer & Level Designer

Casey Rogers – Design Director & Level Designer

Nate Borger – UR & UX

Laurel Darling – Combat Desginer

Jaden Corrado – Level Designer